One thing that I love about the scrapbook industry is that children are allowed. While I am critical of the child-centered, mom-guilt narrative that is often used as a marketing strategy, at least the industry is supportive of families, too. … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Over the last few months, I’ve shared with you my findings from chapter five of my study. I’ve spent time discussing how family, gender, race, and religion shape scrapbooking. The posts: … Continue reading
Each Saturday, I provide a compilation of links from the week’s posts. Because I’ve cut back on posting, this Saturday includes all of my posts from March. This Month: A Letter to My Readers Why do Moms Scrapbook? Why Scrapbook … Continue reading
Here’s another post from my dissertation. If mothers do motherhood through scrapbooking, do fathers also do fatherhood by their very absence from scrapbooking? What I find is that fathers support their scrapbooking wives in a variety of ways. Fathers do … Continue reading
Here’s another post from my dissertation. I was pregnant for the first and only time while conducting my interviews for my dissertation. Scratch that. I was visibly pregnant while conducting my interviews. I was not (and still am not) an … Continue reading
Every other Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. There are contradictory messages among scrapbookers and scrapbook industry workers. Today, I will address two of these messages. The first message is that scrapbooks are created for the family. Care … Continue reading
Here’s another post from my dissertation. It should surprise no one that pregnant women and new moms (and not-so-new moms) take up scrapbooking in larger numbers than child-free women or dads. The question is why. Why do moms scrapbook? It … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. My respondents made scrapbooking fit in their lives. For the most part, they did not scrapbook because they felt obligated to scrapbook as mothers, wives, or as female members of their … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Last week, I questioned wither scrapbooking is a woman’s-only space? Do men feel welcomed in the hobby? Not only do critics like me notice the absence of men in the hobby, … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. There are aspects of the scrapbooking industry that really only work as long as the hobby remains the domain of women, and men remain marginalized. For example, scrapbook retreats involve communal … Continue reading
Stephanie Medley-Rath is a sociologist and scrapbooker who studies scrapbooking and memory keeping. Scrapworthy Lives is a blog focused on her sociological analysis of scrapbooking, with a sprinkling of posts about Stephanie's own scrapbooking projects.
